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"No Kill Date"

Venture Literary Sells UNC Basketball Book to Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press

On January 3, 2008, Frank R. Scatoni of Venture Literary, representing Art Chansky, sold the North American rights to Dean’s Dynasty: How Carolina Basketball Grew from an Afterthought to the Most Storied College Program to Pete Wolverton at Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press.

For its first fifty years, basketball at the University of North Carolina was an afterthought or, at best, a winter-time diversion from King Football. Then, ironically, stemming from football, came a series of moves that catapulted the round ball to preeminent status at UNC and, eventually, an entire region. Three men, connected at the hip of that heritage, built it, took it to the penultimate level, and maintained it to this day. Frank McGuire, a dapper carpetbagger from New York City, hired Dean Smith, a shy Midwesterner from the Kansas Plains, who in turn groomed Roy Williams, the folksy “Mountain Man” from Western North Carolina. With nary a blip over the past half-century, Carolina Basketball and its litany of great players, from Rosenbluth to Ford and Jordan to Hansbrough, has outlasted UCLA, surpassed Kentucky, and regained the mantle from neighboring Duke to remain the most popular and widely followed college basketball team in the country. Tar Heel Nation, and its ever-growing legion, owes it to all three men; they took a “never was” and made it the envy of all who play, coach, and follow the game.

Art Chansky is the author of four books on basketball, including The Dean’s List, Dean’s Domain, March to the Top, and most recently, Blue Blood: Duke-Carolina—Inside the Most Storied Rivalry in College Hoops. His work has appeared in Sports Illustrated, Basketball Times, the official NCAA Tournament program, and alumni magazines of UNC. He has also been featured on ESPN and CNN/SI specials on the Duke-Carolina rivalry.

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